i am what you would call a struggling artist...because it struggle to actually create the space to put the images that come to my heart on paper. sometimes space happens and i get a few things out. here a few sketches from series of painting that i want to do: three parts...slavery, exodus, freedom. not sure where exactly these will fit in but i hope by posting them it will push me to keep going...i have maybe 5 images all together and i want to have 4 for each word.

We had a psychotherapist sharing with the community this week. In part he dealt with clinical attachment styles. One of which is Anxious Ambivalent Attachment. This is the case when the child distances herself as a way of coping with the insecurity of the environment. The mother may well be loving and well intentioned but just isn't able to or doesn't know how to give the child a base of love and consistency. Often there is an alcoholic in the mix creating instability. It reminded me of this strange painting I did a while ago and gave as collateral to the local gallery for showing in their space. At the time it reminded me of Dostoevsky's salad bowl mix of persons disorders working off each other. Now I just think it rings true to the deprivation many of us live in and live as if there were no other reality.

art for therapy